New Yorker art editor Francoise Mouly presents Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See with Blown Covers blog creator Nadja Spiegelman

Artist and designer Francoise Mouly (wife of cartoonist Art Spiegelman, with whom she has published groundbreaking comics for adults and children) has been the art editor of the New Yorker magazine since 1993. In Blown Covers, Mouly discusses how the magazine creates and chooses its signature covers, and reveals the shocking and hilarious sketches that didn’t make the cut. Francoise will talk about the images with her daughter, children’s book author Nadja Spiegelman, who has been instrumental in creating the Blown Covers Tumblr blog, where the weekly Blown Covers contest receives hundreds of amateur submissions a week. Mouly and Spiegelman will discuss the process of choosing contest winners and the essential stages in the evolution of a New Yorker cover and answer questions about the submis